Entitlement nation: If I can’t have mine, I’ll just take yours
The Bard of Chicago, the chronicler of the mean and windy streets, Mike Royko, right, invented a Latin motto for his famously corruptible city: Ubi est mea. Which roughly translates as: Where’s mine?
Now that ObamaCare is law people are calling up health insurance companies and asking: “Where do we get the free Obama care, and how do I sign up for that?” This according to a report by McClatchy Newspapers.
Instead of a nation of doers, builders and achievers, we’ve become a nation of entitlement sponges, parasites sucking the life out the dwindling number of hosts.
According to the Tax Foundation, even before health care, cap and trade and other welfare handouts take effect, “the bottom 60 percent of American families as a group get more back in federal government spending benefits than they pay in federal taxes. Indeed, even those families in the statistical middle income group are on average net receivers of government benefits.
“Obama's policies will, as promised, increase the load on the wealthiest families by an average of more than $127,000 in today's dollars, while increasing the number of American families who are on average net receivers of government spending. Under Obama's policies, most families up to the 70th percentile—those earning up to $109,000—will, on average, get more back from government than they pay in taxes.”
In an editorial today, Investor’s Business Daily observes, “The United States was once a nation of proudly independent people. But now Americans in large numbers think they deserve free access to the Web, no-cost college educations, and jobs they don't deserve and can't be fired from. They believe others should be responsible for their mortgages and feel they have a right to early, cushy retirements at someone else's expense.”
That old saw about democracy collapsing when the people discover they can vote themselves largesse from the treasury may be apocryphal, but it is nonetheless true.
Do you think it possible this state of affairs might effect how some people vote? Some people like these:
